RE: [ActiveDir] Change Auditor tools

2005-11-11 Thread neil.ruston
Does active admin extend to a 10,000+ user base tho? I have never seen it deployed into a large org before now. In larger orgs, simple setup is less important than is scalability. neil -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Vander Kooi

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Harding, Devon
This problem still exists on the CertServer. All DC's are Windows 2003. What else could be done to resolve this? Would I have to uninstall CertSvc and reinstall again? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent:

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread ChuckGaff
It can't hurt to try the uninstall/reinstall approach since that might not be a component that is "upgradable" ... Chuck

Re: [ActiveDir] Track User Disk Space

2005-11-11 Thread ASB
http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/?File=DiskSpace.TXT -ASB FAST, CHEAP, SECURE: Pick Any TWO http://www.ultratech-llc.com/KB/ On 11/10/05, Za Vue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone dumped 2 GB of data on a file server since two days ago. This is unlikely and not normal in my environment. What

RE: [ActiveDir] some users do not have allow inheritable permissions set

2005-11-11 Thread Ben D. Kusa
Thanks for the info. It looks like the users were once part of a protected group, I reset the inheritance flag and it holds on the users after that process that runs every hour. Hi Ben, Putting aside AdminSDHolder for a momentmaybe you were looking for the /P:N option

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
This is definitely an upgradeable component. Can you gather the following data: certutil -dstemplate dstemplate.txt certutil -ds ds.txt And make them available ( or email them to me ) thanks steve - Original Message - From: Harding, Devon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Bernard, Aric
Definitely upgradeable and uninstall/reinstall is not advisable if you have any amount of certs deployed from the CA. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 7:14 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread ChuckGaff
True if running in production -- thanks on the feedback of not needing to do a reinstall ... Chuck

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Bernard, Aric
Was this an upgrade from W2K? What error messages are you receiving on the DC? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 8:43 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

[ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links

2005-11-11 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
We had one of our remote sites that had an automatically generated (by KCC) replication link have its automatically generated link disappear. Can this happen without anyone physically deleting it? Also, what would cause it to not automatically regenerate itself? It's set up just like all our

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links

2005-11-11 Thread Almeida Pinto, Jorge de
The KCC manages auto created links which means it creates and deletes COs according to the then current replication topology. If it is the KCCs opinion it should delete the CO it will. This may happen if the repl. top. changes which can be new links, new DCs, etc. One way to force generation

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links

2005-11-11 Thread Rimmerman, Russ
Title: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links What if we think it should have left that replication link there so we don't have to wait hours for our AD data to replicate overseas? Do we have to just manually create the replication link after it decided to delete it without

RE: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links

2005-11-11 Thread David Adner
Title: [ActiveDir] Automatically created replication links By default, the KCC will try not to create redundant CO's. So if you're describing a desire to have your DC maintain 2 CO's to two different hub locations, for example, then the KCC won't do that. You can adjust this behavior via a

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Harding, Devon
Well all the CAs were backed up before the uninstall. And no this did not resolve the issue. When the service is restarted, it states that none of the policies could be loaded; one Event ID 77 warning for each template, like so: Event Type: Warning Event Source:

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Harding, Devon
This WAS an upgrade from W2K From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bernard, Aric Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:49 AM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error Was this an upgrade

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error

2005-11-11 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
besides uninstalling the CA and going through all the issues around that, why don't you blow away the templetes? If you run certtmpl.msc after it will ask "This is the first time you have opened Certificate Templetes, would you like to publish them in Active Directory?" say yes and then you

RE: [ActiveDir] Automating NoMas

2005-11-11 Thread deji
sent. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread Harding, Devon
When I logged on to the CertServ as a Domain Admin in my child domain and ran certtmpl.msc, it said I needed to be a Domain Admin and Enterprise Admin to publish new templates. I was an Enterprise Admin, but not a part of the Domain Admins group in the root domain. I then Logged on as a

RE: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread Bernier, Brandon \(.\)
you should be able to. I believe it only restores the CA database and since the templates are published in AD, they should be left alone. But, I've never done this so please triple guess me. -Brandon From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Harding, DevonSent:

[ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
One of our Exchange account admins wants to know if there is a tool that would dump a list of the name of each distribution list in the GAL along with who has the ability to add or remove members on each one. Would I approach this with a script or is there a tool I should point him

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Dumping all the DLs is easy. Something like adfind from joeware.net would do the trick. Id just query for groups with mail=* since you can have mail enabled security grups. The ACLs, I think adfind decodes ACLs, but, youll still need to parse this information into something useable.

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread joe
Yep adfind will dump the ntsecuritydescriptor and decode it if you specify the attribute and add the -sddc option. Note it will be in SDDL format which is probably one of the easier formats for scripting but worse for reading. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Thanks Joe Brian, Time to take the feet down off the desk againK MC From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of joe Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 4:13 PM To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Subject: RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions Yep adfind

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
GASP Joeware.net is suddenly blocked by SurfCONTROL. Not kidding unfortunately sigh Must be that opening pic. :-/ Oh well, thank God for my super top secret testing DSL connection so I can get to the usage documentation again. Now where the heck is that surf admin

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread joe
Interesting. Is that controlled locally or is that some blacklist service type item? I am digging around also. I think withsome small mods, the script I wrote for dumping ACLs for AD objects for AD3E could be used for this to generate a CSV with DLs and their perms. It could probably

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Desmond
I think they have a subscription type thing. The WebSense at work tells you what the site is blocked under usually. Does SurfControl do that? If I had to make a guess, Id say somebody reported your postcard: Adult/Sexually Explicit Adult products including sex

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Creamer, Mark
Its a filtering program that we use attached to ISA server. Basically it looks at each request and lets it through or redirects to our AUP internal web page. I was on joeware.net earlier this week, and it didnt block me. So I just went to www.surfcontrol.com (Test a Site link) to make

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread deji
I usually just look at the managedby attrib of any object where objectclass='group'. If the attrib is populated, I then fetch that value and dump it along with the displayname of the DL. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we

Re: [ActiveDir] scripting file move issue(OT)

2005-11-11 Thread Tom Kern
Ok, I'm a scripting retard. I can't seem to figure out how to write this- the script should check the source dir which has many subdirs and look for files with an .eml extension(recurisively in all the sub dirs)and then copy them to the target dir but making sure the file count is less than a

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Desmond
People can have the right to change DL membership through the ACL without that managed by attribute so far as I know. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL PROTECTED] c - 312.731.3132 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

RE: [ActiveDir] scripting file move issue(OT)

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Well, youll need a recursive function to do the tree walking. It will need to take the path it should start in, and then it will call itself for each directory in the supplied path. Heres some pseudo code, sorry Im dead tired this week, so unless someone translates this, youll have to

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread deji
Good point, Brian. Sincerely, Dèjì Akómöláfé, MCSE+M MCSA+M MCT Microsoft MVP - Directory Services www.readymaids.com - we know IT www.akomolafe.com Do you now realize that Today is the Tomorrow you were worried about Yesterday? -anon From: [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
Depends - If the backup was made on a DC which was the CA - and it is a System State backup ( recommended method for CA's ) then Yes If the backup was made on a DC which was the CA - and it is the CA database and key(s) then no. If the backup was made on a member server CA - no. BTW here

Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED**

2005-11-11 Thread steve patrick
clarification added to my Yes and No answers... - Original Message - From: steve patrick To: ActiveDir@mail.activedir.org Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:29 PM Subject: Re: [ActiveDir] CertSvc Error **RESOLVED** Depends - If the backup was

[ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread David Aragon
We have just had a major change in Upper Management and I have been given a rather rare opportunity. As the EA, I have been asked if I need hire more people to better manage the AD environment. My immediate answer was YES! Then I got the bad news, my answer needs to have supporting documentation

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread Brian Desmond
Desk, Workstation, Access Codes, Telephone, Badge ... what else could they possibly need? I've yet to get a job where I'm given an industry standard 35 manhours of work and 5 manhours of lunch per week. Let me know if you're hiring one of those. I may be interested. Thanks, Brian Desmond [EMAIL

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
I'll find the threads and send them to you but on another listserve there was just this discussion of how many IT people per network not necessarily AD though. The answer was . It depends. It depended on your industry, regulation, needs, software. Would management stop looking for

Re: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP]
SecurityFocus: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/132/415186/30/30/threaded Look for the threads regarding IT Department Size Susan Bradley, CPA aka Ebitz - SBS Rocks [MVP] wrote: I'll find the threads and send them to you but on another listserve there was just this discussion of how many

RE: [ActiveDir] dumping DL permissions

2005-11-11 Thread Derek Harris
We've been using SurfControl, but I'm in the process of switching to Websense, because SurfControl does flaky things like this a little too frequently. Itinapropriately blocks or allows access to sites, even though they are correctly categorized. Restart the SurfControl Webfilter service,

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread David Adner
I'd focus less on industry standards, despite that being what mgmt asked for, and instead try to quantify what you actually need and how it would benefit the org (ie: save money in the end, speed things up, improve dependability, etc). For example, you might say Projects A, B, C and D are on hold

RE: [ActiveDir] OT: AD Manpower Needs

2005-11-11 Thread deji
For staffing requirement, you'd want to model your needs against Best Practices of AD operations and delegation, especially if you are being asked for industry standards. If you do that, you'd want to read: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/windows2000serv/technologies/act